IUDon't (a rant)

Disasters in women's "healthcare"

Hello there! I don’t often rant. I have my own unique way of mounting the soap box. Yet, I need to be a bit more direct, divert a bit from my mythic prose.

I just finished meeting with a young woman in my community to discuss gathering a group of young women here to begin proper education and mentoring around the power and wisdom of our bodies.

I had invited her to a training I led last week to a group of women. As in every training or group healing for women I lead, despite the amount of education available to us in our privileged communities and how much embodiment work in other areas of their lives the women have done, the women in the room know very little about their womb health, its power, how to access the wisdom or identify the messages. And, without fail, at least one woman has an IUD.

IUDon't!  Please, unless absolutely necessary and after other avenues of healing and reproductive power have been resourced-

DO NOT STICK A METAL POST IN YOUR WOMB!  THANK YOU.

This is not to shame or create fear for anyone who has an IUD or is on some form of birth control. It is to alert more women to the dangers of putting our reproductive health in the hands of industrialized "modern" medicine.

The majority of the women I have worked with over the last decade have been more harmed by modern medicine than almost anything else. The wounds of rape, abuse, oppression, desensitization and sterilization of our creative power are devastatingly reinforced within or current healthcare system. The resources western medicine has for women’s health are severely limited, and at the root suppress the feminine body.

There is little to no healing inside institutionalized medicine for women.

It has to be said.  It is just the "is-ness" of the system.  Anything created in the system must contain an element of suppression of the feminine body. It is the only way our current fear regime stays in power. We don't need to get our panties in a bunch over it- we have been tight lipped enough-and that is what they want.

The unwinding, the relaxing into life, the opening of our senses and our power lives within seeing it all for what it is. We can then simply see how the wound functions and why, and believe that we can choose something different.

I have been mostly silent for 12 years as I held woman after woman with horrific stories of deception, gaslighting, abuse and harm at the hands of their “doctors”. I didn’t want to sound upset, ya know. I didn’t want to be unlikeable. I also don’t foster a “f*ck the man” mentality as a war inside my body does nothing for our evolution. And- enough already.

I hear something that raises my hairs everywhere every week. Like I just did when this young woman relayed her experience of being told that her increase in severe emotion must be in her head and has no correlation to the IUD she just inserted in her uterus. And the experience of her friend who passed out from pain as the doctor jabbed her womb with an IUD and acted as if it was normal and “stop complaining”. What happens inside the walls of modern medicine is mostly traumatizing and a direct violation of our bodies.

The majority of my personal experiences in western medicine have been harmful. When I needed help as a young person, the doctors stuck me on birth control and prozac. I almost committed suicide. Then when my period disappeared in my early 20s due to the birth control, and I questioned it because it something didn't feel right, my female doctor (which are often the worst because it’s such a hardened woman who can deceive another) looked at me and said “why would you want that gross thing anyhow? Now you are free.” When I finally chose to come off birth control in my early 30s I had a yeast infection that crawled half way down my thighs and up to my navel for three months as the toxins left my body.

I had hypothalamic amenorrhea, complete cessation of menses, for a total of 10 years give or take, from a combination of poor health care and addiction. I fully recovered my womb health at age 38 and am juicy, flowing, more fertile than I have ever been and as balanced as anyone can be in a toxic environment and with a rich history in learning about love at 46 years old.

We are raising our young women inside of this wounding and it can stop with proper education and empowerment.

Did you know

The majority of surgeries performed on women's bodies are medically unnecessary.

Women are more anxious and depressed than any other time in history with over 40% of women in the US on pharmaceuticals for mental health.

The maternal mortality rate is highest in all developed nations and the US is last in line for good maternal healthcare practices.

Did you know that birth can be ecstatic? The body knows how to birth and we need more well rounded midwives who have done their own womb healing so there is zero fear projection within the most powerful moment of our lives.

The pain in the womb, the depression, the fertility issues, the imbalances, the acne is not a deficiency of hormonal birth control, IVF, an IUD or prozac.

The womb can physically tip which can create physical, emotional and spiritual disease. This is why indigenous cultures, like the Maya culture that I was initiated into, centered womb health and created modalities to reposition the womb.

Menopause is not supposed to derail you. It is a rites of passage. The main reason it is a challenge is because of the disconnection from womb health and wisdom in the first half of life. So now the womb is like “hey, you can’t ignore me anymore, I need my initiations before you move on.”

Arousal and pleasure "should" be second nature in the female body.  We are flowers. We are made to drip honey and nectars of Life and be filled by an incorruptible well of sustenance. We are abundance. We are guides through portals of ecstasy and wonder. Our bodies initiate other bodies into remembering what we are all made of.

Aging is a rites of passage once celebrated as women were then deemed the most wise in societies-- societies that centered womb health, feminine wisdom, right relationship with Life.

~Anyhow, I ask you- HOW on Earth did we get seduced into thinking that sticking a metal rod into the most precious, life giving, life guiding organ in the female body was an advancement, a solution?! How did women fall prey to being told that our body’s messages are all in our heads? Little good girl pills is what they created for us.

Don’t be deceived. “They” don’t have answers for you. Ok, maybe there is one doctor in the system out of a thousand you stumble into that plays the rebel card. Maybe you are that doctor reading this now, thank you. They are rare and they often begin their own practice to be able to practice “medicine” in a way that might actually help empower and heal people.

Women!- get wise about your womb.  Life depends on it- beginning with your precious life my sisters. A society of sick women is a society in demise. The people will always be sick if the women are sick. It all gets passed through the womb physically and energetically.

Our bodies contain a wisdom that will never be known by our current reductionist systems of science. That wisdom lives predominantly within the womb. Women healing their wombs amplifies this wisdom for greater collective access and awakening to the magic and mysteriously mythic beauty of life.

The blueprint of Life, the stories of every incarnation throughout time live within the womb. Sacred laws of reciprocity live within the feminine body. Women’s intuition reclaimed is activism in service to Life, regenerative intelligence and how to live in right relationship. We don’t need any more naive inventions created by uninitiated boys when the answers to our ailments, how to evolve in a way that expresses humanity’s highest potential and how to feed all beings live within the flesh of the womb.

So- this amazing young woman and I are forming a group for young women here in my community focusing on body sovereignty, womb empowerment and reclaiming our sacred Life giving wisdom. If you are local come! If you are not, reach out to me for beginning an online group mentorship for young women. Call your young women in and I will circle them around this wisdom- I do need your help so I can help.

Grandmother Womb

~Step aside as I dare to write from my womb.  Let my Grandmother’s sing the prophecies through me buried under that nameless stone by the old Oak tree for safe keeping on that hill that overlooks their burning village.  

They sing the scrolls through me from under the stone wall that no one will lay claim upon as it was for sheep anyway.  My people never built borders against their brethren.  Until that time of the burnings from the blaze of bayonets claiming the tender skin of their children’s necks and the maiden’s breasts that bound their freedom in barbed fear and put their good prayers to the land under arrest.  

They wail the first tales of Life through me and into the clay that shaped itself into a memory bank for my foot to find through the voice of the Wind calling me round and round bends in the mind where that bayonet thought it could lay claim, but I figured out its game.  It is here in the Kingdom on Earth that my womb hears, through its red burning for Life flesh and dripping for Life dreams, the Holy Gospel that sets all of my Grandmothers free.~

Blessings. Thank you for letting me exhale all of that.

Love, Shira Starfire